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A teenager was struck by a stray bullet while she was working at a pizza restaurant. Surveillance footage caught the moment a teenager was struck by a stray bullet while she was working at a pizza restaurant. NBC 7's Ashley Matthews has more. (Published Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016)

An 18-year-old Little Caesars employee was hospitalized after a stray bullet shot through restaurant window, striking her in the leg.

Police responded to the 200 block of W. Clemmens Lane in Fallbrook just before 9 p.m. on Aug. 12 over a report of shots fired in the Rite Aid parking lot. When officers arrived on scene, they found eight shell casings on the ground.

According to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, they received another call a minute later about a woman being hit with a stray bullet about a quarter mile down the street inside a Little Caesars Pizza on Main Street.

Investigators say they believe the bullet traveled a straight line from that Rite Aid parking lot — bypassing several businesses — to Little Caesars a few blocks away.

“At first I thought that there was sauce on it. I looked again and I saw a little hole in my leggings," she said. "That's when everybody started gathering up to me and I tried to hold on to one of my coworkers and they carried me to the back and they started screaming 'they shot her, they shot her.'"

Jenyffer said she remembers going to the hospital with pain shooting up her leg as doctors tried to keep her calm.

Jenyffer is still recovering at home and had to miss the first day of her senior year of high school because of the pain.

SDSO investigators told NBC 7 they've sent the bullet along with the shell casings off to a lab to confirm if they are from the same gun. Authorities believe the shots may have been gang-related. No arrests have been made.